Lauffohr: confluence of the Aare and the Reuss
Here's another photo from a different part of the Wasserschloss region. The Aare flows in from the right, while the Reuss comes down from the left. It would be better to have a panorama of this region but I didn't have a tripod with me at the time.
If you look closely in the left half of the photo you'll notice what looks like a factory. That belongs to ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), a company that is a "global leader in power and automation technologies". Brown Boveri was established in Baden in 1891 and was the first company to transmit high voltage AC power. That's a simplified statement of the complicated history, a little of which can be read at this IEEE site. Asea dates back to 1883, started in Stockholm, Sweden. The two merged in 1988.
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4 comments:
Lovely blue sky! Nice photo.
I wish I could see the buildings. They only show up as a shadow on my Mac computer. It looks like it would be interesting.
Tanty: I'm glad you like it!
AL: Thanks for coming by! Since you've requested it, I'll get some photos. I'm not sure they'll be very interesting, but on a nice clear day (which today is NOT) I might be able to get a decent shot from a different location. There are other ABB (and other companies like Alstom and NOK) buildings around this area, they're bound to show up on this blog at some point.
>started in Stockholm, Sweden
Yeah, in those days we weren't busy blogging... ;)
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